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Christina Davis gives us an intimate understanding of the effects of some two decades of civil war, showing us why, in the absence of national reconciliation, students place their hopes for a viable future in cosmopolitan cities and foreign migration. It is a fine study, and its implications are profound. * Thomas R. Trautmann, Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology, University of Michigan * The Struggle for a Multilingual Future offers a timely, incisive analysis of how ethnicity is (re)inscribed and lived through language in (post-)civil war Sri Lanka. This important book is remarkable for its ethnographic detail and for its keen sense of how language policies, and the ideologies that animate them, impact the imaginations and everyday lives of Tamil and Muslim students. Davis masterfully offers a vivid portrait of life in this fraught multiethnic and multilingual context. * Constantine V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Faculty of Comparative Human Development and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago *

""The Struggle for a Multilingual Future offers a timely, incisive analysis of how ethnicity is (re)inscribed and lived through language in (post-)civil war Sri Lanka. This important book is remarkable for its ethnographic detail and for its keen sense of how language policies, and the ideologies that animate them, impact the imaginations and everyday lives of Tamil and Muslim students. Davis masterfully offers a vivid portrait of life in this fraught multiethnic and multilingual context."" -- Constantine V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Faculty of Comparative Human Development and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago ""Christina Davis gives us an intimate understanding of the effects of some two decades of civil war, showing us why, in the absence of national reconciliation, students place their hopes for a viable future in cosmopolitan cities and foreign migration. It is a fine study, and its implications are profound."" -- Thomas R. Trautmann, Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology, University of Michigan

"""The Struggle for a Multilingual Future offers a timely, incisive analysis of how ethnicity is (re)inscribed and lived through language in (post-)civil war Sri Lanka. This important book is remarkable for its ethnographic detail and for its keen sense of how language policies, and the ideologies that animate them, impact the imaginations and everyday lives of Tamil and Muslim students. Davis masterfully offers a vivid portrait of life in this fraught multiethnic and multilingual context."" -- Constantine V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Faculty of Comparative Human Development and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago ""Christina Davis gives us an intimate understanding of the effects of some two decades of civil war, showing us why, in the absence of national reconciliation, students place their hopes for a viable future in cosmopolitan cities and foreign migration. It is a fine study, and its implications are profound."" -- Thomas R. Trautmann, Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology, University of Michigan"

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Christina P. Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Illinois University.

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